Hurley felt that the horror of the Western Front needed to be represented and only embellishment of the kind that composites permitted would allow the reality of the scale and suffering to be communicated. View our most recent social media posts He went to extremes of environment and danger to obtain his famous images. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. He was truly, one of a kind. I slog away, shifting chunks of material and moving them back, eating my salad in a daze, wondering if the […], “I came back to America in 1939, in October, but do not feel that I am at home yet. Back in 2004 I attended the launch of a documentary about his life and listened to one of his twin daughters talk about her father and discovered more about his travels in the less icy regions of our world, including Papua New Guinea. Of course, Adobe Photoshop has made the process Hurley pioneered much easier and more sophisticated. Frank is the man!! There is a school of thought that perceives an integrity in taking a shot perfectly captured, in-camera, without post-processing. I never had one complaint about him and I really want to take him for 1200. Born in Glebe in 1883, by the early 1900s he was  a talented amateur photographer and by 1910 a reputable professional. Frank Hurley – A Photographer’s Life by Alasdair McGregor, currently reading 1984 for the umpteenth time, it's still th…, Lot of stuff about Blair that I have never read before, as a…, An interesting article Darcy. He listens to you and makes paper topics interesting because he lets us have a big say in what we write about. cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by Recuerdos de Pandora, cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by Rossco ( Image Focus Australia ). I am currently studying Hurley and his photographs in a university history subject, Australian popular culture. His next, and perhaps most significant contribution to both photography and history, was when he was appointed the first official Australian war photographer in 1917. We won’t do that again.” The Handmaid’s Tale p. 307 I suspected re-reading The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood prior to viewing the Tribeca film festival […], George Orwell aka Eric Blair (1903-1950) died seventy years ago today, on the 21st January 1950. he is very not good and not helpful teacher. | John Quiggin theguardian.com/busi…, We're all in this together... abc.net.au/news/2020…, People in Poland join nationwide job strike over top court's abortion ruling after days of protests abc.net.au/news/2020… via @ABCaustralia, "80 per cent of people thinking we are already experiencing problems caused by climate change..." #Auspol abc.net.au/news/2020…, Excited to have tickets with SO to this adaptation of one of my favourite novels. Hurley produced many classic images of the conflict on the Western Front and in the Middle East, as well as making a number of controversial 'composite' pictures when he thought reality could be better shown by a dramatic montage of photos. If you can, take his class. This is a shameful record for a country that regards itself as egalitarian. Students understand the significance of Australia's British heritage, the Westminster system and other models that influenced the development of Australia's system of government. Students explore the factors that led to Federation and experiences of democracy and citizenship over time. He's extremely nice, and really cool. The Bean/Hurley disagreement about the nature of representation** has been repeated many times since and I often see these kinds of discussions at forums. The jumble of great blocks of ice shows the enormous forces at play. You may use these HTML tags and attributes:

, Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. One of a suite of Hurley portraits of the helpless Endurance. His skills would prove vital to the expedition’s survival. Frank Hurley would have loved our contemporary age. I love the story of Frank Hurley (1885-1962). It is so true that students need a lib…, The #hashtag and the #citizen: living with #paradox, Thanks Richard. Frank Hurley. His daughter marvelled at how Hurley was able to fit many lifetimes into his 76 years with his boundless, restless energy. His favourite aunt, Nellie Limouzin (1870-1950), passed away five months later in tragically sad […], Every day I work on the edit of my book. Later that year, as World War 1 broke out, he joined the ill-fated expedition of the British explorer Ernest Shackleton to Antarctica. He learnt how to superimpose images, from two or more negatives, into one photograph while working making postcards in Sydney.You can view many of them here.He would later take the skills learned producing tourist memorabilia to the Western Front. via Trevor Cobbold. Professor in the English department at East Carolina University. Originally, it was his WWI photography that fascinated. 0. New York has been most inhospitable – and I am a […]. they use their experience and knowledge of real estate, together with their interpersonal skills and training in the latest technologies, to coordinate the mutual desires of home buyers and sellers, landlords and renters. The skills you will learn are invaluable. Hurley distinguished himself by recording numerous remarkable still photographs and thousands of feet of film. By the time Australian Frank Hurley arrived on the Western Front to assume ‘the grim duties of France’ in 1917, 1 Frank Hurley, ‘My diary, official war photographer, Commonwealth Military Forces, from 21 August 1917 to 31 August 1918’, in Papers of Frank Hurley, Manuscripts Collection, MS 833, National Library of Australia, Canberra. This is no doubt the best teacher I have ever had at ECU. This class got me a real job. Hurley felt, after experiencing the risks of war, that getting war pictures ‘of striking interest and sensation’ is virtually impossible in combat with the available equipment. How successful any representation is depends on a range of contextual factors, including the response of the person consuming the photograph, as much as the original photographer’s intention and the impact of chance. (ACHHS102, ACHHS121), identify points of view in the past and present (ACHHS124, ACHHS123), develop historical texts, particularly narratives and descriptions, which incorporate source materials. He is way cool. Hands down, Mr. Hurley has been my favorite English teacher. He's a good guy and class isn't too hard to boot. In 1911, Douglas Mawson selected Hurley as official photographer responsible for still and movie photography for his first Antarctic expedition, AAE 1911-13 and later for the BANZARE 1929 expedition. He would go on to work on various feature and documentary films and be appointed an official war photographer in the Second World War as well. I recommend him highly. His class is fun to go to and he is very hot!!! He works with you and gets down to your level. {"thumbnail":null,"thumbnailLarge":null,"mediaDerivativeUrls":[],"mediaUrl":"https:\/\/, Gather: connecting Aboriginal communities with collections and stories, Animation: An episode after the Battle of Zonnebeke, 'Hurley, James Francis (Frank) (1885–1962)', Recreation of how Hurley’s Zonnebeke composite photo was made. He's a good guy and class isn't too hard to boot. If you like challenges and you do believe that you are an amazing writer - take him. View a list of all our accounts. If you can't pass this class you shouldn't be in college. johnmenadue.com/trev…, “Our big mistake was teaching them to read. Two members of the expedition lost their lives and Mawson was left stranded in Antarctica. (ACHHS105, ACHHS124), use a range of communication forms (oral, written, graphic) and digital technologies (ACHHS106, ACHHS125). However he grade you as if the lights were on. He tells you exactly what he wants, and he rewards you for doing it. 0. He had built his experience and demonstrated his talent with various Studio employers before his daredevil nature led him to stand on train tracks in the path of oncoming steam engines and take a series of risky photos that brought him to prominence. Take him, he'll change the way you view English. He makes boring papers more interesting by allowing us to choose topics that interest us. While rue Cardinal Lemoine is…, Brilliant post Darcy. James Francis 'Frank' Hurley could probably be called an 'extreme' photographer nowadays. Ok, his class is kind of interesting. He went to Java in 1913 to take promotional tourist photos and then in 1914, he accompanied the adventurer Francis Birtles on a 6,000 mile trek by car into the outback and produced a film of their various encounters along the way. And when you get to revise a paper at the end of the semester and he tells you exactly what you need to change to get a better grade! If you can't pass this class you shouldn't be in college. His grading is REALLY hard though. Photo Credit: Frank Hurley. The views expressed at this site are my own and do not necessarily represent those of my employer. And ok, he is "likeable" as a person.